In addition to the process of development, guideline 'after-care', i.e. the combination of dissemination, implementation and guideline updating, has been recognised as being important to the success of guidelines (Browman, 2001a, Browman, 2001b).
The lack of success of guidelines in changing the practice of health care providers may result from the passive dissemination of guidelines and policy [ 55] and more active approaches such as audit and feedback, reminders and educational outreach [ 56] are needed.
Thus, to increase implementation success of guidelines, significant diagnostic or treatment innovations should be indicated by a well-arranged design of the guideline (e.g., desk version of the heart score), so that differences to previous behaviour become obvious.
In regard to the success of guidelines in achieving full reporting of PAS and euthanasia, this varies substantially.
Social influence theory can help to expand our understanding of the social processes which influence success of guideline implementation.
Other factors that affect the success of guideline implementation are content or format related, like clarity and presentation of the recommendations or the existence of a quick reference guide or algorithm [ 8].
The success of reporting guidelines depends on their adoption and effective use.
The success of practice guidelines in improving care for children has yet to be convincingly demonstrated.
But while Kuchar's method conformed to the proposed new guidelines, success with belly putters in three recent major championships raised eyebrows.
The purpose of this paper is to examine a best practice company case to identify the critical success factors and guidelines for the design of networks of scalable modular manufacturing systems to support geographically distributed production of mass customized goods.
